Word: ils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese prisoners who would not "forcibly resist" repatriation. By scraping around among dissident South Koreans, it raised the number of those willing to go north to 70,000. When this number was passed on to the U.N. truce negotiators, they were stunned. They had already (and unwisely) given Nam Il & Co. a much higher estimate; they knew the Reds would not accept the 70,000 figure. The U.N. negotiators reportedly asked Matt Ridgway for a rescreening. Ridgway referred the request to Van Fleet. Van Fleet, however, stoutly insisted that the prison stockades were under control, and resented any suggestion that...
...first time in months, the enemy negotiators showed some signs of irresolution, even of alarm. North Korea's General Nam Il complained that the U.N. was trying to impose its plan by threats, that the U.N. stand left no room for "negotiation." The Peking radio said the U.N. attitude amounted to a "sitdown strike...
...Transcriber Paul Fleuriot de Langle. The papers comprise a diary which records Napoleon's conversations throughout the exile, and a regular summary of daily court life. But everything was written in a private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...
...lecture on why he became a Jesuit, Father Tondi slipped out of his room at Gregorian University. "I'm not coming back," he telephoned the rector next morning. "Don't look for me." Four days later, a front-page spread in Rome's party-lining daily Il Paese announced that Alighiero Tondi had joined the Communist Party...
When fellow Jesuits visited him to remonstrate, ex-Jesuit Tondi, wearing a pair of gaily colored pajamas, threw them out. (Wrote Tondi in Il Paese: "You should know that there is no real friendship among Jesuits...